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Creative Writing: A Letter To Alcove Springs
We are leaving Alcove Springs we are following the Platte River all the way to Fort Kearny which is 11 days on the trail and 319 miles. I think the walking is going to be very difficult for all of us. We were on the trail and our tongue on our wagon broke. I think that it broke when the ox were pulling our wagon and it connect to the ox it wasn’t strong in the first place so I think that putting more pressure on it made it break, it took us 2 days to repair. Grey clouds are starting to form in the sky the wind starts to blow really fast. It starts to hail and rain. I think there is going to be a really big storm. Fred tells everyone to stop and get under their wagon. Billy and Rae are really scared I’m am trying to comfort them but I am also very scared. …show more content…
Rae got a broken arm and Billy got a couple cuts and bruises. All of our stuff inside the wagon was okay but our wagon itself is really bad, two of our wheels fell off and our canvas has a ton of holes thank goodness we brought our sewing kid. It took us 5 days to get everyone wagon picked up and fixed. We now in Fort Kearny, I wrote a letter to my mom and Caroline to tell them everyone is alright and that we are doing good. I hope it gets to them very soon and they write back soon. We had to get 2 tires replaced because of the storm, we picked them up and put them back on but they were really bad so we had to get them a replaced, we also got a spare which was 5 dollars, because who knows what will happen and we might need it. We will stay here for 2 days, we had to organize the wagon because we just threw stuff in there after the storm. Rae had to get a sling and a cast when we got
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